Soultransformer wrote:I was just wondering if anyone knows any medition methods of getting into a trance/meditative state while dancing/listening to music. I'm actually going to some hippy beach party this weekend where they'll probably be be playing techno/psytrance and such. I thought might be fun to try it, otherwise I'll just try to find a way myself.
I think a place to start would be with whatever music you favor when dancing. There are no "official" guidelines for this. Personally, I love African drumming, and Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, basically the music of the African Diaspora. It makes me feel alive in a way that no other music does, although I love many different types. Especially Celtic. (More drumming) I also really get into Techno/ House/ Trance because I love dancing and that stuff is fun to dance to, but I don't reach deep trance as easily or as quickly as I do with African music.
The first time I entered deep trance was at a Rainbow Gathering in Minnesota in 1990. The drummers circle there was amazing. They started playing around sunset, and didn't stop until the Sun was well-up the next day. The thing there was that, there were so many drummers, people would drop in and out all night long without causing any disruption, the same with the dancers. People were coming and going constantly, and most importantly, they gave each other space to move in any way the music moved them.
You can't dance like that in a bar or at a concert.
I admit, I was high on ecstasy when I started, but that wore off fast once I entered deep trance and, literally, plugged into the Earth and drew my energy from there. I could feel it move through all my Chakra Centers. That is a close as words will get to describing it. “I” was gone the whole time. There was no “I” There was just Body-Soul-Earth Energy-Drumming- Movement. A constant flow of energy through me, around me, above me, then back into the Earth
It went on (for me) for five or six hours. I am still SOOOO thankful that it happened where it happened, where people knew enough to give certain dancers as much space as they needed.
After that, entering deep trance while dancing is not something I even think about. My body/mind just does it. Although there still is some resistance from “me” because “me” doesn't like giving up control when the result is a clear lesson in Getting On Just Dandy without “me” while in trance.